Starting nutrients

What soil are you using? And 1/2 gal is not a flush. A flush to remove salt build up and get PPM down would require several gallons at once.

There should be no need for nutes at this stage if using a good soil and there should be no chance of salt build up yet.
Nutes are usually only added after a plain water’s runoff drops to less than 1000PPM.
Remember, that feeding schedule is designed to sell more product. :wink: Feed often and flush much away every so often. Then go buy more…

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My ppm was way low before this which is why it was suggested to feed. They were at around 372 and I have a water filter system in my house so the pH is at 5.4 and the ppm is only 5 something. Good to know on the flush. First time doing it all and so many ways to do it all makes my head spin. I’m sure I needed them up but trial and error I guess. No book out there that says do this when…just 5 million ways. I need a grow for dummies book specific and to the point.

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I may not be a good one to copy as far as nutes go. I am a seat of my pants grower and use a varied concoction in my grows. I have some fish shit type stuff(N), bone meal(P), ashes(K), one part of a 2 part flower booster(Connoisseur brand for extra P&K), epsom salts, Cal-Mag, molasses and baking soda. My soil is a weird mix of old Fox Farm, old Sta-Green, compost perlite, sand, peat moss and dirt from my yard.

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Appreciate the tag Grow Bro, @Catdaddycox good info from @Graysin. The FF trio is heavy in salts and recommend always feeding to liberal run off. I consider the liberal run off as a soft flush rinse. It’ll rinse those un-used salts away from the previous feeding keeping a healthy root zone :love_you_gesture:

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